3 weeks to ChimaeraCon and counting!! It's going to be a great show, and I'm sure everyone will have a great time. Lots of things to do: Gaming of all sorts (board, card, rpg's, miniatures), console gaming area, computer LAN gaming, music gaming (Rock Band), MechCorps' BattleTech Pods, costume contest, panels and more.
Hope to see you there!!www.

Dave Arneson, Co-Creator of Dungeons and Dragons and founding father of the gaming industry as we know it, has passed away. He was 61.

Read the Wired article here, or the article from Ain't it Cool News hereThere's not much I can say here that didn't also apply to Gary Gygax's passing last year. His talent and vision gave us a hobby that has ( Read more... )

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I don't think I can adequately state how I feel at this point. I started gaming with my friends Gordon, Ralph and Don back in high school (30 years ago this summer) with AD&D, and yes, I STILL have all my books. From there we went on to all the other TSR games: Gamma World, Boot Hill, Top Secret and more. I've gone on to play many more systems, ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatnix!!!

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So anyway, I'm sitting here in my OwlCon shirt, thinking about how cool the con was and trying to get stuff done for ChimaeraCon next month and I have to hope that some of the stuff I worked on at Owlcon comes through.

I saw (and played in) MechCorps Mobile Armor Division pods. I gotta say, they rock on ( Read more... )

So after getting back from GenCon, I was thinking about some old campaigns that my friends and I played and I got to thinking about the following song. I first heard it from a friend in the SCA (so very long ago...), and I was able to find an old lyric sheet. I offer it for your amusement ( Read more... )

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Just when you thought it was safe to go to youtube... it's the Dungeons & Dragons commercial. I hate to admit it, but I remember watching this commercial, although I was already playing the game. I don't think I would have actually played it based on this commercial. Notice that there's no Doritos, or Mountain Dew on the table? Where's the ( Read more... )